ACHTUNG Windows Service Status

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Introduction

ACHTUNG helps to record the status of Windows services installed on a specified machine.

Requirements

.NET 1.1

Using ACHTUNG 2.0

ACHTUNG still does what it did. 2.0 supports context menu (on right click) now. Just right click on the service name that you see on the list and you get options to start, stop or restart the service.

The listboxes have been updated with list view controls. You can also see how you could select a listview item on right click of the same.

Using ACHTUNG 1.0

• Enter machine name you want to fetch service status for.
• Click fetch service status BEFORE your task.
• This gets all the services installed on the machine specified (before your task).
  • Perform your task.

    e.g. start application which would be changing your service status etc.

• Click fetch service status AFTER your task.
• This gets all the services installed on the machine specified (after your task).
• This generates two CSV files.
• You can compare these two files and see which services have been started/stopped/installed/removed after you performed your specific task.

ACHTUNG uses the simple ServiceController class to fetch Windows services installed on a machine. Post this list to a CSV file and this allows you to compare the status changes your task/application has made to those Windows services. This is a simple utility.

History

• Release 1.0: 25 July 05.
• Release 2.0: 01 August 05.

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